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Once in a while a perfect nickname that really fits is invented. A contributor to Guido (English John, not his real name perhaps) is somewhat skeptical about David Miliband and his younger sibling Ed Miliband. Mr. John says that he had harbored high hopes of Ed Balls winning the Labour leadership and leading that party to oblivion. Now it seems that Balls is struggling to make a serious impact on the race. Still, he claims, “The Marx Brothers” (David and Ed) will surely make a mess of it somehow.

The Marx Brothers. That is very, very good. It isn’t that either David or Ed are actual Marxists (although Ed probably is a bit still). But they are from a Marxist family. Their father was the noted sociologist and Marxist scholar Ralph Miliband.